Kindness Calendar

Practicing kindness, both giving and receiving it, is an important skill for children to learn. This printable kindness calendar provides a meaningful activity for each day of the month to reinforce kindness in simple, engaging ways.

The calendar suggests daily kindness missions like thanking an adult for what they do to help you, reading a book with a friend, paying someone a compliment or helping to pick up litter. The activities can be done at home, school, or out in public community spaces.

Each day children can mark off the completed action, giving children a sense of accomplishment. Teachers could even add a small reward system for checking off rows throughout the month. The mix of challenges - both interpersonal acts of kindness towards others and intrapersonal acts cultivating self-compassion - develops empathy, gratitude, self-control, and perspective-taking.

Young children learn that kindness experiences should be part of everyday life, not just special occasions. Older students grow reflection skills by discussing their participation afterwards. Adaptations like writing personalized actions or theming months around different areas makes the calendar flexible year-round. Simple in execution yet profound in impact, this calendar seeds kindness that will continue flowering in children's hearts.

Resource includes 1 PDF printable page